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Dr. Prelock received her doctorate in speech-language pathology from the University of Pittsburgh in 1983. Currently, she is Professor and Chair in the Department of Communication Sciences at the University of Vermont (UVM). She also serves as Training Director for the Vermont Interdisciplinary Leadership Education for Health Professionals Program, a federally funded project through the Maternal & Child Health Bureau.
She is an ASHA Fellow, a board-recognized Child Language Specialist, and Vice President for Standards and Ethics in Speech-Language Pathology for 2008-2010. Recently, she served as the co-chair in Speech-Language Pathology for the 2007 ASHA Convention in Boston. She has served ASHA in several capacities over the past 20 years, including work on the National Committee on Language Learning Disabilities, the Clinical Specialty Board, the Board of Division Coordinators, Coordinator of Division 1, Language Learning and Education, the Scientific and Professional Education Board, the Leadership Development Program, the Ad Hoc Committee on Mental Retardation/Developmental Disabilities, the Ad Hoc Committee on Service Delivery in the Schools and numerous Convention Program Committees as either topic coordinator or committee member.
Dr. Prelock is a University of Vermont (UVM) Scholar, an awardee of the Kroepsch-Maurice Excellence in Teaching Award at UVM, and a winner of the First Annual Autism Society of Vermont Excellence in Service Award. She has 94 publications and has given more than 320 presentations in the areas of autism, collaboration, phonology, language assessment, and intervention. Her areas of expertise include the nature and treatment of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and language learning disabilities. Currently, she is engaged in research supporting the social communication of children with ASD using social stories and comic strip conversations to facilitate communication, behavior, and perspective taking as well as using typical peer models to support joint attention and social interaction.
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